THE GAFFER: THE FACTS
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A retro football management game. Take a club at the bottom of the Football League in
August 1959 and manage it for thirty real seasons, to May 1989: pick the side,
take the meetings, face the man from the paper and the man on the radio, and keep
the board, the fans and the town on your side. Everyone you meet remembers what
you said and did.

Ninety-two clubs, each with its own crest. On match day every man reads the
play and makes his own choice; players bump and barge, and a man can be knocked
off the ball. The terrace is packed with little fans in flat caps, scarves and
bobble hats, and the goals come back in an action replay. Every screen has its
own handheld layout, for the Steam Deck and for Windows handheld PCs.

Title        THE GAFFER
Developer    Pitchwork Studios Ltd, Cardiff, Wales
Lead developer  Sanwar Ahmed
Release      30 October 2026, on Steam
Platforms    Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck and Windows handheld PCs
Controls     Mouse and keyboard. Controller support is coming in a future update.
Genre        Football management
Players      Single-player
Language     English
Set in       English football, 1959 to 1989: thirty seasons

Steam        https://store.steampowered.com/app/5088390/
Website      https://pitchworkstudios.com
Press        https://pitchworkstudios.com/press
Video        the gameplay trailer, from the game, on the website's front page and the Steam page
Contact      support@pitchworkstudios.com (press questions and interviews)

The six screenshots are from the game as it runs, in its desktop layout:
the action replay, outside Hooligans Manor, the day-one kickabout, the hub with
the Manor, club status (the town from above) and the new signing's taxi. They,
the key art and the press sheet may be used in coverage of the game.

Real town and city names are used as place names only; clubs, players and
characters are invented and not affiliated with any real club, person or body.
THE GAFFER and PITCHWORK STUDIOS are trade marks of Pitchwork Studios Ltd.
(c) 2026 Pitchwork Studios Ltd, registered in Wales, company number 17363584.
